The universe is microwaving itself. A mystery signal discovered in the 1960s led to a Nobel prize.

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Sources:
Temperature and wavelength of original CMB:
http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~jwillis/tea...
http://www.astronomy.ohiostate.edu/~...
ESA Planck References:
http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploratio...
NASA WMAP Reference:
https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov
Interview with John G. Cramer (via email)
https://kipac.stanford.edu/highlights...
Nobel prize photo Alexander Mahmoud 2018
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsn...